Abdallah ibn Rashid ibn Kawus (Arabic: عبدالله بن راشد بن كيوس) was the Abbasid governor of Tarsus and the Cilician borderlands (ath-thughur ash-Shamiya) between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire in ca.
[1] As he turned back, however, he was encircled in the area of Podandos by the assembled forces of the Byzantine commands of Seleucia, Pisidia, Qurra (Koron), Kawkab (unidentified) and Harshana (Charsianon).
[1] The ensuing battle was a disaster for the Muslims, only 500 or 600 of whom survived it; Abdallah himself was heavily wounded and taken prisoner to Emperor Basil I the Macedonian in Constantinople.
[1] This battle is probably to be equated with the defeat of the unnamed "Emir of Tarsus" by the Domestic of the Schools Andrew the Scythian mentioned for about the same period by the Byzantine sources.
[2] In the next year, Emperor Basil sent Abdallah as a gift, alongside other Muslim prisoners and several captured copies of the Quran to Ahmad ibn Tulun.